Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 100

However, he did not say a word, though he could not help giving many a curse to the ill-luck that was laid out for himself, to be helping the people that were to snatch her away from her home and from her father.

Who acts: GULEESH, people · What happens: not say, not help, give, lay out, help, snatch · To what, where: word, many curse, ill luck, people, Musha · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (GULEESH, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	However	however	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 help	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 help	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 help	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 help	advmod
14	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	conj
15	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 help	xcomp
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 curse	amod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 curse	det
18	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 giving	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	23 luck	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 luck	det
21	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 luck	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 ill	punct
23	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 giving	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 laid	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 laid	aux:pass
26	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 luck	acl:relcl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 laid	compound:prt
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 himself	case
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 laid	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 helping	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	33 helping	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 helping	aux
33	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 giving	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 people	det
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 helping	obj
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 snatch	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 snatch	aux
38	to	to	PART	_	39 snatch	mark
39	snatch	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 people	acl:relcl
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 snatch	obj
41	away	away	ADV	_	39 snatch	advmod
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 home	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 home	nmod:poss
44	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 away	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 father	cc
46	from	from	ADP	_	48 father	case
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 father	nmod:poss
48	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 home	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	GULEESH	a word		however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	not help	could	GULEESH				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	give not said to happen	gerund	GULEESH not said here	a many curse	the ill luck		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent curse=Theme to luck=Recipient
4	lay out	past · passive		the ill luck		for GULEESH	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for himself=Beneficiary
5	help	to-infinitive · progressive	GULEESH not said here		the people		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary
6	snatch	past	the people	Musha		away property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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